This Friday, TV Rain (an independent Russian TV channel) will host a debate on censorship in the media. My position is that all this talk of "it’s not censorship here, it’s just editors-in-chief making those decisions" is hypocritical nonsense. And claims that "it’s the same way in America" are doubly hypocritical nonsense — an attempt to distract us from the heart of the problem.
That is how my dispute with Vladimir Pozner began:
Pozner gave the following comment:
I wrote a post saying that, first, this was false — American channels did show people falling — and second, that banning a report on such a high-profile crime is real censorship, plain and simple.
Vladimir Pozner took great offense and published a piece titled "A Response to Alexei Navalny," in which, for some reason, he calls me "Lyoshenka" (a diminutive, patronizing form of Alexei) and writes that he was practically a dissident in the USSR:
TV Rain proposed a debate between us, and we agreed.
So tune in this Friday, March 18, at 6:00 p.m.
We’ll discuss censorship, editorial policy, Russian television, and who has been lying.
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